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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous explorer is referred to in this section?
(a) John Thompson.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) James Cook.

2. What does Utz say is one of life's pleasures?
(a) A woman's happiness.
(b) Business trade.
(c) Natural food.
(d) Children's laughter.

3. How do Utz and Marta counter any microphones that may have been planted in the house?
(a) Bang pots.
(b) Talk in code.
(c) Set off alarms.
(d) Whisper.

4. What does the boy offer Utz to eat?
(a) A chicken leg.
(b) A duck breast.
(c) A tin of olives.
(d) A baguette.

5. What city does Utz meet the man from his bank?
(a) Zurich.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city would Utz go to during mushroom season?

2. What does Utz say is the same word as porcelain?

3. What language does Utz mumble loud enough for the blonde woman to hear?

4. How does the narrator find the mood in the Soviet Union?

5. What meat does Marta serve Utz and the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Utz want to go back to Prague?

2. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

3. What did Utz fantacize would happen on his trip?

4. Why does Utz say he took up alchemical studies?

5. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

6. How does Utz react when the narrator asks to see his bathroom?

7. Why did people think gold could save one from death?

8. Why does Utz think porcelain was the Chinese people's material?

9. How did Bottger allow Augustus the strong to open the first commercial porcelain factory in 1710?

10. Why is Augustus the Strong one of Utz's heros?

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